Little squares in the screen

[Neat_Hedgehog]

I've noticed something a little strange about BF2 since I installed my new video card, AGP x850Pro (flashed to x850XT with 16 pipes), that seems to have developed in the last couple days. There's a little line of tiny black and white flashing squares slightly off center running vertically down the screen. Sometimes. When I look a certain direction they'll usually go away (direction varies from map to map). If I stand still, they sometimes go away.

I'm not really sure if this is artifacting from having my card OCed (it's the Connect3D version, so it did come with a good sized heat sink on it) or what. I don't get any artifacts in any other game, benchmark, or tests. It also didn't do this the first time I ran BF2 after flashing my card, so it doesn't seem like that'd be the case.

The really strange thing was that after about 2 hours of BF2 yesterday, the squares seemed to grow less and less frequent. They're not really all that bad since they're so tiny (about 2 pixels wide at the most) but they can get distracting sometimes.

Any tips on what to do to get rid of these little things?

PS: You suppose I could go to x850XT PE without any real trouble? The cooler on my card is the exact same thing as what's on the PE, after all.

[Sniper1432]

Re: Little squares in the screen

in my opinion i think it was because u oc'ed it because when i did i had the same problem just unoverclock it if u know how to if u have a decent card u dont need to overclock it

[Neat_Hedgehog]

Re: Little squares in the screen

I guess I'll give that a try later tonight when I can get in a round or two. The only reason I hadn't yet was that nothing else had any errors, so I was trying other things first. Of course, BF2 seems to be really twitchy about running with OCed hardware.

[megawhompertoo]

Re: Little squares in the screen

in my opinion i think it was because u oc'ed it because when i did i had the same problem just unoverclock it if u know how to if u have a decent card u dont need to overclock it

Yeah...if slowing down the clock fixes it, then you know what the the cause is. If it is overheating due to the o'c, you can try one of these: Zalman vf900. Great deal for $34.00 at newegg.

[Neat_Hedgehog]

Re: Little squares in the screen

Well, I "underclocked" it (since it's bios says it's an x850xt, it's "underclocking") back down to 500/500, and it didn't change. I didn't think that would work, since it didn't do this the first time I played with it flashed to an x850xt. It only began the day after.

I Also tried SF with x850xt clock speeds, and I got a CTD after about 10 minutes, but when I tried it at 500/500 it kept running. Not very surprising. Like I said before, BF2 and SF are really twitchy about OCing your hardware, in my experience.

The temp wasn't even that bad. Only 70c, and I could override the fan controls to make it go full bore while running BF2 to keep it cooler, if I need to.

Perhaps it's a problem with my 6.5 drivers?

EDIT: Hey, you know what I just realized? Those little squares weren't there the first time I ran it after flashing my card's BIOS, but it was still the un-patched version of BF2. It was after I patched it that those distortions started popping up.

[megawhompertoo]

Re: Little squares in the screen

EDIT: Hey, you know what I just realized? Those little squares weren't there the first time I ran it after flashing my card's BIOS, but it was still the un-patched version of BF2. It was after I patched it that those distortions started popping up.

Time to try a re-install?